Description

Total Contact period: 54 hours

Weekly contact: 4.5 hours of Lecture time

AI Content Operations

1. How to Use AI Tools to Create More Content in Less Time
2. The Beginner's Guide to Running a Content System with AI
3. 5 AI Tools That Can Transform the Way You Create Content
4. How Smart Professionals Are Using AI to Stay Ahead at Work
5. Stop Doing Everything Manually — Let AI Handle Your Content Workflow

The 90-Day AI Content Operations Beginner Curriculum

This blueprint is designed to take a complete beginner from zero to executing clean, high-quality, and structurally sound AI content workflows.

📅 The 90-Day Weekly Timeline

Month 1: Foundations, Prompt Mechanics, & Core Workflows

Week 1: The Mindset, Core Terms, & Your First Tool

• Focus entirely on learning the vocabulary of AI content operations, setting up your workspace, and mastering basic prompt structuring. Avoid trying to automate anything yet; focus on manual precision.

Week 2: Persona Engineering & Brand Voice Clones

Learn how to make AI sound like a specific human or brand rather than a generic machine.

• What to focus on: Collecting a "style guide data pack" (3–5 writing samples of a specific tone). Learn to analyze a text's sentence length, vocabulary choices, and rhythm.
• Weekly Goal: Write a system prompt that successfully forces the AI to write a short product description matching your target brand's voice perfectly without using generic AI buzzwords.

Week 3: Ideation, Formatting, & Information Extraction

Use AI as a collaborative partner to brainstorm, summarize, and convert data into structured formats.

• What to focus on: Forcing the AI to output information in clean Markdown tables, bulleted lists, and structured templates. Learn how to feed long transcripts or articles to the AI to extract key takeaways, meta descriptions, and action items.
• Weekly Goal: Take a 15-minute raw video transcript or a long article and use AI to compress it into 3 distinct social media hooks and a 5-item bulleted summary table.

Week 4: The Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Framework & Content Editing

Develop the crucial skill of editing AI content so it reads naturally and remains factually sound.

• What to focus on: Creating a personal "AI-ism Scavenger Hunt List" (hunting for words like "delve," "tapestry," "testament," "revolutionize," and "dynamic"). Practice checking every fact, stat, and quote generated by an AI using manual search engines.
• Weekly Goal: Take a fully AI-generated blog draft, run it through your HITL checklist, strip out the generic fluff, and manually rewrite the introduction and conclusion to inject authentic human perspective.

Month 2: Structural Production, Repurposing, & SEO Basics

Week 5: Multi-Step Structural Outlining (Long-Form Content)

Learn how to build comprehensive, long-form content by working section-by-section to prevent AI hallucinations.

• What to focus on: Never ask an AI to "write a 1,500-word article" all at once. Focus on a 3-step process: (1) Generate structural outline, (2) Refine outline headings, (3) Generate content section-by-section using the context of the previous sections.
• Weekly Goal: Build a structurally sound 1,000-word educational guide using a modular, section-by-section drafting process.

Week 6: The Content Repurposing Engine

Master the art of taking one "pillar" asset and splitting it into multi-channel micro-content.

• What to focus on: Creating structured templates that transform a single long-form blog post into an email newsletter, a LinkedIn text post, and a short-form video script.
• Weekly Goal: Take one long-form article and successfully create a cohesive 4-piece content distribution package from it.

Week 7: Intro to AI SEO Research & Content Briefs

Learn how AI accelerates the initial research phase of search engine optimization.

• What to focus on: Using AI to group related search keywords into logical clusters and drafting detailed content briefs that outline search intent, target headings, and questions that must be answered.
• Weekly Goal: Generate a professional content brief for a target keyword phrase that a writer could easily follow.

Week 8: Managing Batch Generation & Custom LLM Spaces

Learn how to organize your AI environment so you do not have to retrain your AI on your brand guidelines every time you open a new chat window.

• What to focus on: Learning how to set up Custom Instructions, Claude Projects, or Custom GPT setups (using free tiers where available) to permanently house your brand voice guidelines, target audience profiles, and editing rules.
• Weekly Goal: Configure a reusable workspace or set of instructions that automatically applies your formatting rules and brand voice to any raw text you paste into it.

Month 3: Basic Operational Workflows, Portfolio Build, & Launch

Week 9: Designing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Transition from a "content writer who uses AI" to a "content operations specialist."

• What to focus on: Writing clear, step-by-step documentation detailing exactly how someone else should use an AI tool to complete a specific content task.
• Weekly Goal: Write a 1-page step-by-step SOP document for a specific task (e.g., "How to use Claude to turn a podcast transcript into a newsletter").

Week 10: Building Your Portfolio Project (Execution)

Begin building the tangible asset you will show to clients to prove your practical capability.

• What to focus on: Gathering raw materials for a real or mock brand and executing the end-to-end content workflow flawlessly.
• Weekly Goal: Complete the primary assets of your project portfolio (the Strategy Document and the Content Assets).

Week 11: Building Your Portfolio Project (Documentation)

Document your operational process to demonstrate how you achieved your results, which is what content operations clients actually pay for.

• What to focus on: Writing out the "Before vs. After" transformations, detailing your specific prompt structures, and explaining your human editing framework.
• Weekly Goal: Complete the entire operational case study and compile it into a clean, shareable document or folder.

Week 12: Final Review & Capstone Assessment

Validate your skills against real-world scenarios and prepare your positioning for the market.

• What to focus on: Testing your knowledge by troubleshooting poorly written AI content under time constraints and reviewing the core principles of AI content governance.
• Weekly Goal: Run through the final beginner verification check to ensure you can confidently move to the intermediate stage.